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Wine 8.0-rc4 Released With Another 25 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 01/14/2023 - 05:41
The fourth release candidate of Wine 8.0 is now available as the project works toward its stable release in the coming weeks. Wine, of course, allows for running Windows programs and games under Linux and other platforms. Valve's Wine fork, Proton, is what powers Steam Play...

Setting Up Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" For Accelerator Use

Phoronix - Sat, 01/14/2023 - 03:00
With Intel's 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors that launched this week, Intel is betting heavily on the integrated accelerators for offering them an advantage over competitors for modern hyperscaler tasks and other workloads able to take advantage of the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB). But what does the software landscape currently look like and what's needed to actually make use of these accelerators under Linux? Here is a brief how-to guide / overview for making use of the accelerators on your Linux server.

Linux Developers Eye Orphaning The JFS File-System

Phoronix - Fri, 01/13/2023 - 22:11
Following the Linux kernel deprecating the ReiserFS file-system and with plans to drop the kernel driver in 2025, the next file-system target being evaluated for whether it should stick around the kernel is the Journaled File-System, JFS...

Junior Linux Engineer - IamExpat in the Netherlands

Google News - Fri, 01/13/2023 - 21:28
Junior Linux Engineer  IamExpat in the Netherlands

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